From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12927 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont and font mechanism Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:29:27 +0100 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030818232927.30395@smtp.btinternet.com> References: Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061249704 31154 80.91.224.253 (18 Aug 2003 23:35:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 23:35:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue Aug 19 01:35:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19otWg-0004wY-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:35:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B9310B46; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:34:54 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from einsteinium.btinternet.com (einsteinium.btinternet.com [194.73.73.147]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C1E10ACB for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 01:29:03 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from host213-122-150-120.in-addr.btopenworld.com ([213.122.150.120]) by einsteinium.btinternet.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #23) id 19otQs-0004cf-00; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:29:02 +0100 Original-To: , "Henning Hraban Ramm" In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail 4.2b1 Carbon Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12927 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12927 Henning Hraban Ramm said this at Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:53:15 +0200: >> define a font family for roman caps [rc] beside the roman [rm] font >> family. A change to small caps is done with \switchstyleonly[rc], so if >> you're in SerifBold, you end up in SerifCapsBold. > >Good idea. >I don't really understand the family mechanism. >Can I define all "styles" like rm, ss... or is >ist limited (other than the lack of free two- >letter-combinations)? I have suggested [rc] (roman caps) and [cs] (caps sans) to complement rm and ss. I see no reason why it couldn't go further. Things like [hw] might need some foundational/fallback definitions, though. Need to look further. >> It ends up being memory-hungry, and probably a bit slower than other >> options, but it kinda works. > >I like high level solutions, so I need always >lots of memory... ;-) Yeah. Me too. >> Funny coincidence, I was looking around apostrophic labs and other free >> fonts as well, this weekend. Then I found fontsanon.com. :) > >And what do you think? Better? (I'll have a look later.) >I spent some hours writing (that is, ordering and editing) >typescripts for Meade's Street family. >Don't know if I'll use it... Hey, that's pretty nifty. I installed loads of fonts, but have nothing in the way of typescripts. I also liked Florencesans and your insight of putting reverse-italics (yuck) in the slanted slot. And this is *after* I spent the weekend compulsively texfonting every default Mac font I could find on my machine. Did anyone get Scriptina to install? The pltotf step in texfont still hangs. Cheers, adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Computing Dept, Lancaster University +44(0)1524/594.537 Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/593.608 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-